diff --git a/package/base/cpio/cpio.desc b/package/base/cpio/cpio.desc
index 45d501320..f8516c343 100644
--- a/package/base/cpio/cpio.desc
+++ b/package/base/cpio/cpio.desc
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 2.7
+[V] 2.9
 [P] X --?--5---9 108.400
 
-[D] 2372289839 cpio-2.7.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/cpio/
+[D] 2469541309 cpio-2.9.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/cpio/
 
diff --git a/package/base/cpio/futimens.patch b/package/base/cpio/futimens.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f22d43b8f..000000000
--- a/package/base/cpio/futimens.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- ./lib/utimens.c.orig	2007-06-01 00:23:36.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./lib/utimens.c	2007-06-01 00:23:48.000000000 +0200
-@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
-    Return 0 on success, -1 (setting errno) on failure.  */
- 
- int
--futimens (int fd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
-+futimens_local (int fd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
- 	  char const *file, struct timespec const timespec[2])
- {
-   /* There's currently no interface to set file timestamps with
-@@ -166,5 +166,5 @@
- int
- utimens (char const *file, struct timespec const timespec[2])
- {
--  return futimens (-1, file, timespec);
-+  return futimens_local (-1, file, timespec);
- }
---- ./lib/utimens.h.orig	2007-06-01 00:23:36.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./lib/utimens.h	2007-06-01 00:23:52.000000000 +0200
-@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
- #include "timespec.h"
--int futimens (int, char const *, struct timespec const [2]);
-+int futimens_local (int, char const *, struct timespec const [2]);
- int utimens (char const *, struct timespec const [2]);